Rainer Landgraf

	Rainer Landgraf, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Research group leader RG Landgraf: Behavioral Neuroendocrinology
	Phone:	089/30622-495
	Fax:	089/30622-569
	Email:	landgraf[a]mpipsykl.mpg.de
	Interests:	Animal models of trait anxiety, neuropeptides, release patterns within the brain, genes, brain, behavior

CV: Born 1950 in Callenberg, Germany. Study of biology at the University of Leipzig. 1987 Professor and Chair of Neurobiology at the University of Leipzig. Since 1993 research group leader at the MPI of Psychiatry and Member of the Faculty of Biology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich.
Selected publications: Neumann, I.D., Landgraf, R. (2011) Brain oxytocin and vasopressin in anxiety and depression: link to social behavior. TINS (in press) Tobin, V.A. et al. (2010) An intrinsic vasopressin system in the olfactory bulb is involved in social recognition. Nature 464, 413-417 br> Landgraf, R. et al. (2007) Candidate genes of anxiety-related behavior in HAB/LAB rats and mice: focus on vasopressin and glyoxalase-I. Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 31, 89-102 Landgraf, R., Neumann, I.D. (2004) Vasopressin and oxytocin release within the brain: a dynamic concept of multiple and variable modes of neuropeptide communication. Front. Neuroendocrinol. 25, 150-176 Ludwig, M., Sabatier, N., Bull, P.M., Landgraf, R., Dayanithi, G., Leng, G. (2002) Intracellular calcium stores regulate activity-dependent neuropeptide release from dendrites. Nature 418, 85-89